Anticipatory strategies for the business, insurance, and financial sectors

Premise

Complement the cause-and-effect description of physical reality by a description characteristic of living systems.

In living systems, the current state is determined not only by past and
present, but also by their possible future states. Scientists are discovering
more and more the significance of anticipatory characteristics (from the
molecular level to the level of complex systems). As scientists try to endow
matter and various mechanisms with intelligence, anticipation becomes more
important, involving new forms of computation. Anticipation can be seen
as a "second Cartesian revolution."

The Institute operates within the University of Texas at Dallas as of September
2004. Mihai Nadin, whose pioneering work in anticipation
is internationally acknowledged, is the Institute’s founder and director.

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is conceived as a University-wide entity, open to faculty and
other researchers, as well as Ph.D. candidates. The rich human
resources within Texas universities and from
other institutions worldwide are the prerequisite for achieving
the Institute’s main goal: to take a new look at significant
aspects of human activity with the aim of offering proactive solutions.